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43Indemnity for Councillors—general
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43 Indemnity for Councillors—general
Subject to section 43A, a Council must indemnify and keep indemnified each Councillor, member of a delegated committee and member of a Community Asset Committee against all actions or claims whether arising during or after their term of office in respect of anything necessarily done or reasonably done or omitted to be done in good faith—
(a) in the performance of a duty or a function or the exercise of a power under this Act, the regulations or a local law or any other Act; or
(b) in the reasonable belief that the act or omission was in the performance of a duty or a function or the exercise of a power under this Act, the regulations or a local law or any other Act.
S. 43A inserted by No. 23/2024 s. 46.